MOSCOW, April 26 Reusability will be a mandatory requirement when creating a new Russian super-heavy rocket, Roscosmos CEO Yuri Borisov said on Wednesday.
in order to reduce the cost of these services, this will be a mandatory requirement when creating this carrier,» he said as part of the educational marathon of the Knowledge society. He explained that when creating a super-heavy rocket, developments on the Amur-SPG reusable light-class rocket, development work on which is currently underway in Russia, can be used.
Earlier, Borisov said that the design of a super-heavy-class rocket would be resumed in Russia in 2024, and the corresponding program has already been drafted and is being coordinated.
Technical design of the Russian super-heavy rocket was suspended in February 2021. As Dmitry Rogozin, who held the post of head of Roskosmos at that time, said, it is necessary not to create a rocket based on developments 20 years ago, but to use the latest technologies. It was assumed that the development could be resumed after the revision of the appearance of the rocket — instead of oxygen-kerosene engines, methane ones would be used in it.